Encounters with Aliens on this Day

June 24

1947 - On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood
River region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six
discs flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed
that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch also
stopped running. (Sources: Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, 1947;
Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M.
Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1).

1947 - At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane
near Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight
from nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed
across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon water."
They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was definitely
crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or crescent shaped
with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked them as they flew past
Mount Adams, and calculated that they were flying at a speed of 1,500
miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 feet. When he landed in
Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the local radio station
where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, despite the fact that the
objects he sighted may not have been discs. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold &
Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 9; Dominique Weinstein,
Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, June 26, 1947;
Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; UNICAT database,
case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee).

1953 - A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something
like "a large aircraft" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at
6:30 p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming
straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it
was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, only 25
meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered,
making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a
series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a
control panel was visible. No occupants were seen. The cabin section rose
above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the
west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within three seconds at
an 80-degree angle of climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days
later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. (Sources: Project Blue
Book files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques
Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203
(case 112)).

1964 - Fifteen or more disc-shaped objects paced a truck driver
and his wife in Vero Beach, Florida in the predawn hours. The discs
flew along, tipping back and forth. They formed a V formation, then a
circular formation; finally the objects split the formation and passed on
either side of a group of trees. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator,
August 1964, p. 1).

1965 - A saucer-shaped object with a conical top, and rows of lights across the front and along the side flew over Nebo, Queensland, Australia. It glowed bluish-white and had a red tail. At 10:00 p.m. in Mundilla, South Australia a round object with red, green, and white lights flew away over the horizon. (Sources: (1) Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966).

1966 - Police officer William L. Stevens had a close encounter
with a dirigible-shaped object 100 feet long and 30 feet thick at 3:30
a.m. He was driving on the Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia
when the UFO approached. It had alternating white and greenish-yellow
lights around its perimeter, and it was surrounded by a mist. It began to
play a game of cat and mouse with his police cruiser. "It seemed to be
playing with me," he said. It moved away when the officer turned on its
flashing lights, maintaining a distance of a few hundred feet. After
several minutes it departed, accelerating suddenly and making a high speed
vertical climb. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 261;
Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9; Richard F. Haines,
CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 164; MUFON UFO
Journal, June 1991, p. 12; UNICAT database, case 654, citing James E.
McDonald).

1967, Trenton, Maine - Two people sighted
a silver-gray, hat-shaped object hovering about 500 feet from the
shoreline in Trenton, Maine at around 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight
Time. It emitted a vapor at its base. The object ascended into a fog bank
and descended again at a greater distance before moving away. (Source:
Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 349).

Trenton, Maine Daylight Disc Report - 1967

1967 - A man walking alone at night along a bridal
path in Bovington, England came upon a strange figure
bent down by the side of the path. The figure was short and was wearing
what looked like a black, one-piece leather suit. He had a trowel in his
hand and appeared to be digging in the earth. When he noticed the witness
approaching the figure made a strange, high-pitched sound and was lost
from sight. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue
of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-51 (A1559), citing Jenny Randles,
Awareness, Winter 1977).

1968 - A young woman named Torres was awakened at 1:10 a.m. in
Laguna Raiva, Santa Fe, Argentina by an intense humming sound. She
then noticed an oval-shaped light in the corner of her bedroom and inside
the light stood two strangely dressed beings. They both wore metallic
diving suits and helmets with visors. One was taller than the other and
luminous white beams of light emanated from the tips of the fingers of
both entities and from their visors and lower abdomens. Both beings
vanished suddenly. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1968, case #822, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, Vol. 27 #
1).

1971 - At 11:00 p.m. in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhine, France a
disc-shaped object was seen tilting in the sky at 15 meters altitude above
a residential neighborhood. It leveled off, then lights were seen upon the
ground. At the site a depressed circle and ground marks were found.
(Source: Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO
Sightings, case 481, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #
117).

1977 - At one o'clock in the morning a UFO was sighted hovering
over the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta, in the Dominican
Republic. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its
bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside the
object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car engine failed,
and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. (Sources: Leonte
Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, September
1978, p. 5).

1995 - A small disc-shaped object hovered over a truck in
Farmingdale, New York at 11:30 p.m. at night. The driver could tell
the UFO was close because it hovered below the low, overcast sky, so he
got out of his vehicle and attempted to chase the UFO on foot, to no
avail. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995
archive).